Slovakia vs Ukraine prediction and betting tips

Tournament:European Championship

Game time:21 jun 2024, 21:00

A match between the national teams of Slovakia and Ukraine will be held in the 2nd round of the Euro on June 21, 2024. The first team, having unexpectedly started with a victory, will now be happy with a draw, the second one, after a devastating disgrace, needs only to win, preferably not minimally.

Slovakia vs Ukraine: key statistics and trends

• Slovakia has won 3 times in a row.
• Ukraine lost twice in three previous matches.
• Slovakia wins the first half in 40% of matches, Ukraine – in 30% of games.

Slovakia – the shape of the team and its analysis:

“The Repre” was able to make excellent use of the successful draw for last year’s qualification. Calzona’s team was not surprised by losing both matches to Portugal. At the same time, it, speaking about the games against all other opponents, lost points only at the very start – there happened a 0-0 draw in the struggle with Luxembourg. Then there were victories, including the confrontations with the Bosnians and Icelanders.

Friendly matches in 2024 showed gradual progress. Starting with the defeat made by Austria, the team then avoided failure in the last minutes of the game in Norway. And it scored 4 unanswered goals in the matches against San Marino and even Wales in June. As for the championship, the team, starting with Belgium, managed to win sensationally (even if it was lucky, both with the goal scored and with the fact that Lukaku’s goals were cancelled after video replays).

Ukraine – the shape of the team and its analysis:

“The Yellow and Blues” have shown good football under the leadership of their current coach. They didn’t qualify directly for the Euro only because Italy had better extra indicators when tied on points. Still, the team managed to take strong 2-1 victories in the play-offs with both Bosnia and Iceland.

Speaking about the summer, the team held 3 friendly matches with all possible outcomes. A goalless draw in the struggle with Germany was followed by the failure at the start of the match with Poland (it ultimately lost). Finally, the team defeated the Moldovans – 4-0. The tournament in Germany started with the battle against Romania on Monday. And the team absolutely to the point, hopelessly, lost – how will the coaching staff react?

Slovakia: team news

Tomic had to be removed from the squad due to injury.

Ukraine: team news

The participation of Mykolenko is questionable due to an injury in the game against the Moldovans.

Slovakia vs Ukraine: Possible starting line-ups

Slovakia (possible line-up): Dubravka – Hancko, Skriniar, Vavro, Pekarik – Duda, Lobotka, Kucka – Haraslin, Bozenik, Schranz.

Ukraine (possible line-up): Trubin - Mykolenko, Matviienko, Zabarnyi, Konoplya – Zinchenko, Stepanenko, Malinovsky, Sudakov, Yarmolenko – Yaremchuk.

Previous head-to-head matches: Slovakia vs Ukraine

The opponents exchanged victories in the Nations League in 2018. And in historical terms, “the Yellow and Blues” have a minimal advantage: 3 wins and a pair of defeats in 8 matches.

Free prediction for the match Slovakia vs Ukraine

“The “Yellow and Blues” are considered to be the favourites of the following battle, but they have clearly “floated” and it is difficult to say if they will return to its good performance, and how can they rebuild the game in a couple of days? We think that the nominal hosts will not lose to such an opponent (odd: 1.79).